Defect Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

AppleCare Adventures: How to get a faulty MacBook battery replaced

by Chris Rawson (Oct 27th, 2010)

The old saying about cars depreciating the moment you drive them off the lot goes double for notebook batteries, which lose a bit of their maximum capacity with every charge cycle. The battery is the one component of your portable Mac that is all but guaranteed to fail eventually... though ...

20% of TUAW readers' MacBooks are discolored

by Conrad Quilty-Harper (Jun 27th, 2006)

The results of our MacBook discoloration poll are in; 20% of TUAW reader's MacBooks exhibit discoloration. It's hard to judge how accurate these results are, but if the real numbers are anywhere near these levels then Apple has a serious problem on its hands. Fortunately, there are signs that Apple ...

High pitched squeal defect on some MacBook Pros

by Fabienne Serriere (Mar 13th, 2006)

While I certainly can't vouch for this problem myself as I don't own a MacBook Pro, there seem to be quite a few owners of the new laptop with complaints over a high pitched noise emanating from their machines. Our own Dan Pourhadi had a whine on his new MacBook Pro, even though it may not be the ...